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It's a great series to read volume by volume, but chapter by chapter is really painfully slow. Lately I get the impression after reading a chapter that I've gained almost nothing over the previous week, probably because it's just generic fight scenes and Inoue emo bubbles.

It's a great series to read volume by volume, but chapter by chapter is really painfully slow. Lately I get the impression after reading a chapter that I've gained almost nothing over the previous week, probably because it's just generic fight scenes and Inoue emo bubbles.

My first impression of this was when they (Ishida, Chad, and Ichigo) first entered Hueco Mondo(sp) and the fight sequence took forever; I was able to justify it by them showing the improved Chad and Ishida.

The kicker was the chapter when they first met Nell & Crew, they took a whole chapter to introduce an environment and once closeup! WTF!?

Originally Posted by Woofcat

I'll agree that it is slow. But this is some fight that could influence the rest of the storyline and be flashed back on so many times it becomes over shown like so many others.

I would agree with you (about the fight being so pivotal it deserves a full development), if every chapter leading up to this wasn't so dull it made me wanna stop reading for six months just so I can have one solid night of development.

All other shonen have such development in fights, Grimmjow's release was so lackluster, he released just for the sheer sake of releasing (as though a certain mangaka got so bored he wanted to force it). Ichigo had no moment of enlightenment, he hasn't changed the fact that he fights for others, and still hasn't been able to tap into the "instinct" everyone and their mother is telling him to tap into.

I look to the current fight arc in Naruto by comparison, and see flashbacks, storyline, character emotion, technique, planning, and purpose.

All I see here is "BANG. BOOM. kurosaki...kun!? ZIP. POW. CERO!?. ZOMG! kurosaki..."

nice^^ so i wasnt the only one who had the same thought. its really depressing. every week i almost die to know if ichi's going to kick his ass and in the end they are almost at the same state like before, almost nothing is changing -.-

All I see here is "BANG. BOOM. kurosaki...kun!? ZIP. POW. CERO!?. ZOMG! kurosaki..."

ditto that, exactly what I was thinking. Watching the anime filler is more interesting than this.

As for your comments on Naruto, I found Sasuke talked way too much during the fight. It's expected for Deidara since he is a loud mouth anyway, but the quiet Sasuke keep explaining what he is doing... sigh. Even so, that's better than the sequence in Bleach right now.

Yes Bleach is painfully slow right now...I keep thinking that this arc is just a segway to the ensuing war! However, it seems to have gained some importance and the fights are becoming critial it seems...especially if Ichigo maims Grimmjaw.

I am still hoping that Ichigo and company are either: A.) Joined by the Vizards (I mean common, with those great characters how can they NOT be back in some form). B.) Flee HM with their tails between their legs or by order of SS. That way we can get back to some larger developments (return of the Vizards FTW).

I hope that Bleach gets back on track and actually begins to move forward and casts off the repetitive, slow story progress.